Films with: Stone, Oliver

Alexander revisited the final cut /

The story of Alexander the Great, who in 4th century BC conquered ninety percent of the known world of the time by defeating Greece, Persia, Afghanistan, and India in just eight years.

DVD 9261

Any given Sunday

Tony D'Amato, the embattled Sharks coach, faces a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new, marketing-savvy Sharks owner who's sure Tony is way behind times.

DVD 1608

Born on the Fourth of July

A true story of innocence lost and courage found. Ron Kovic a young volunteer for the Vietnam War changed from being a zealous teen to an embittered veteran, paralyzed from the mid-chest down. He returned to an environment vastly different from the one he left and struggled before emerging as a brave new voice for the disenchanted.

DVD 105

Doors

Biographical film about one of the most exciting and controversial figures of the '60s, Jim Morrison. With his rock and roll band, The Doors, he influenced the rock music scene as no other group had.

DVD 1607

Frank Capra's American dream

Ron Howard narrates a look at Frank Capra's family and professional life. Focus is on Capra's films and their reflection of American life.

DVD 8055

Hand

Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist whose life comes apart at the seams when his drawing hand is severed in a car accident. Slowly, painfully, he tries to adjust, but a terrifying evil creeps into his consciousness. One by one, the people who stand in his way begin to die.

DVD 6791

Heaven & earth

The true story of a man who fought, a woman who endured, and a love caught up in the war in Vietnam.

DVD 2191

JFK

Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.

DVD 265

Joy Luck Club

Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and heartbreak, and shows how their experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children.

DVD 1531

Midnight express

This film is based on a true story. William Hayes, a naive young American vacationing with his girlfriend in Istanbul, Turkey, tries to smuggle a couple of kilos of hash out of the country. He is caught, thrown into a Turkish prison, and subsequently raped, tortured, and forced into the brutality that defines the inmates' constant struggle for survival. There are other foreigners there, many for smuggling, and word is that the only way out of the jail is by dying, or taking "the midnight express." Max, his friend and fellow inmate swears, "That train doesn't run around here."

DVD 300

Natural born killers

Fugitive lovers kill people.

DVD 328

Nixon

Drama about the fall of Richard Nixon based on the view that a dark, murderous conspiracy controls the world.

DVD 334

Platoon

Follows young Chris Taylor who arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion, and the anger growing within himself.

DVD 1602

Salvador

In 1980, Richard Boyle, a veteran war photographer whose career needs a boost, heads for El Salvador to cover the civil war there. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerrillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. After the murder of Archbishop Romero, the rape and murder of an American nurse and three nuns, and the death of a fellow journalist, Boyle attempts to escape El Salvador with his Salvadorean girlfriend Maria and her family.

DVD 1604

Scarface

Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, Scarface follows the violent career of a smalltime Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire.

DVD 503

Snowden

The incredible untold story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others.

DVD 12028

South of the border

Director Oliver Stone visits seven presidents in five countries in South America to gain some understanding about the political and social ideas and the revolutions, and to clear up how people view them. Includes interviews with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Argentinean president Cristina Kirchner, Cuban president Raul Castro; also features presidents Evo Morales, Lula da Silva, Fernando Lugo, Rafael Correa and former president Nestor Kirchner.

DVD 9796

Talk radio

A Dallas talk radio host subjects his ex-wife and co-workers to a darkly comic marathon bout of compulsive risk-taking with his unstable radio audience.

DVD 1606

U turn

A small time gambler and a woman caught in a twisted relationship with her powerful husband want to get out of the town of Superior, Arizona.

DVD 1208

W.

A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States. Rising from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How he used Christianity to turn his life around, met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq are featured.

DVD 6380

Wall Street

An ambitious young stockbroker is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage.

DVD 2099

Zebrahead

A young white man begins dating the cousin of his best friend, both of whom are black, igniting long simmering racial tensions at their high school.

DVD 9631